Kara Finamore
Compassionate practical support for everyday challenges
- Credentials
- MD, LCSW-C
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kara
Kara Finamore is a licensed clinician practicing in Maryland. She holds an MD and is a Licensed Certified Social Worker-Clinical, LCSW-C. Kara has about ten years of work experience and focuses on practical help for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship concerns, and LGBT-related issues.
Her approach is straightforward and respectful. Sessions are shaped around the person who shows up, not a one-size plan. Kara listens for immediate needs and priorities, and then helps clients set small, achievable goals.
Background and approach
She uses evidence-based techniques to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. That can mean learning coping skills for anxiety, developing new ways to handle relationship stress, or working through grief and loss. She also supports people dealing with addictions, intimacy questions, and parenting strain.
Kara has additional experience with issues such as domestic violence, fertility concerns, first responder stress, end-of-life and hospice counseling, and postpartum depression. She aims to be sensitive to cultural differences and the impact those have on healing. In sessions she combines practical skill-building with steady support.
The process is collaborative: clients talk through what’s hard, try new strategies, and track progress. For someone juggling life changes or parenting pressures, her work focuses on usable tools and realistic steps forward.
Evidence-based approaches and online care that fit your life
Many clients benefit from short-term, focused techniques that teach concrete skills. One common approach Kara uses is skill-based work for anxiety and stress, which teaches breathing, grounding, and thought-management tactics to reduce day-to-day symptoms and improve functioning. Another approach focuses on trauma-informed strategies that help people process difficult experiences at a pace they can manage and build safety and coping tools around those memories.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will ask about your goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. From there she and the client decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress is made in a collaborative way.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from home, phone sessions remove the need for video, and live chat or text-based messaging can provide brief check-ins and support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit consistent care into busy schedules and to maintain therapeutic momentum during life’s changes.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
Next step
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